SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Launching the nation’s first online U.S. domestic hospital-shopping
interactive platform designed to help self-funded employers and their
workforces discover better care for less, DoctorGlobe
today announced its flagship customer Claim
DOC, LLC (Claim Doc). Sharing a commitment to lowering healthcare
claims costs for self-insured plan sponsors and participants, the
relationship will offer the proprietary DoctorGlobe solution, featuring
an algorithm that ranks 120+ surgery procedures across 2,800+ hospitals
nationwide by quality, distance and price.

“Launching DoctorGlobe with a key customer already in place to drive
employer adoption and employee engagement will catapult market
attention,” says Tibi Zohar, CEO, Doctor Globe, noting that the platform
has special appeal to small-to-midsize and large plan sponsors, ERISA
groups, labor unions, Third Party Administrators, brokers and benefits
consultants. “Accessing the most cost-efficient hospitals – wherever
they are located -- leverages the online shopping appetite of healthcare
consumers. It’s a familiar high-tech approach that overcomes the price
transparency concerns, and engages plan members in their own healthcare
choices.”

DoctorGlobe is the centerpiece of a bonus incentive strategy to replace
the traditional out-of-pocket approach: eliminates up-front or hidden
costs, waives out-of-pocket costs for the plan member, and provides a
cash award as a part of the corporate savings. Participants are rewarded
for making smart choices, and plan sponsors save money.

Ben Krambeck, CEO, Claim Doc, says, “DoctorGlobe finds and ranks
hospitals based upon cost and quality in an employee’s geographic area,
offering our member support teams a platform to provide patients with
the choice to work within our narrow or primary networks, with
out-of-network providers -- or both. Employers also have the option to
choose between a percent of whatever savings the solution creates and a
flat fee based on a per-employee-per month charge.”

Zohar reiterates, “To date, we are the first and only ‘web 2.0’ style
U.S. domestic hospital-shopping platform of its kind. Participants can
shop for the provider that best fits their needs in terms of quality,
distance, and their estimated bonus based on the savings their chosen
hospital generates. It’s all about choice, flexibility and
affordability, and the DoctorGlobe platform makes it all possible.”

About DoctorGlobe

DoctorGlobe, the first and only online U.S. domestic hospital-shopping
platform of its kind, helps self-funded companies and their employees to
discover better care for less. Utilizing a ‘big data’ and ‘crowd wisdom’
approach, coupled with a smart employee incentive program, DoctorGlobe’s
proprietary algorithm ranks 120+ surgery procedures across 2,800
hospitals, ensuring that every plan participant can seamlessly find,
compare, and reserve their care. Visit: www.doctorglobe.com.

About Claim DOC, LLC

Claim DOC provides claim review, negotiation, and auditing services to
commercial self-funded health plans for applicable In or Out of Network
Claims or for Plans having determined to use the new No Network style of
facility claim access and management based upon cost and quality. http://claim-doc.com/